Contribution of local examples of co-evolution of society and hydrology to address current and future challenges of sustainability in the context of the Panta Rhei Book

Impacts and trade-offs between society and hydrological processes cover a wide range of issues, for which climate, geography, environment, cultural context, economy, and society altogether result in largely different coevolution schemes and current scenarios. This work presents a selection of case studies addressing the Panta Rhei Decade’s goals and discussions, that cover representative examples to assess future challenges of sociohydrology to be included in the Panta Rhei Book results. As a follow-up of the work progress presented in previous conferences, we focus now on each storyline to highlight their contribution to the Panta Rhei decade’s work and impact on future reflections, and pathways.

Specifically, some similarities and major divergences are assessed between local cases across geography and topics in a preliminary attempt to identify the key conclusions of this paradigm and the most relevant sectors dealing with socio-hydrological processes now, and in the future. These results pave the line towards the final lessons learnt from this process, to be presented in the XXIst Scientific Assembly of the IAHS.